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The Witch: A Reader in Feminist Political Theory

Beschreibung

 This reader addresses the popular resurgence of the political identity of the witch as a figure of power and feminist protest, expanding the area of study from early modern history and into political science and philosophy. Bringing together established classic essays on the witch with emerging new scholarship, this volume takes up a variety of pressing questions that are essential to feminist political theory. What power dynamics operate within these new forms of identification and commodification of the witch? What exactly is being claimed and reclaimed when one identifies as a witch today? What is the relationship between witches and the category of “woman”? What roles do race, class, and gender play in the figure? And how does the witch help us conjure up new approaches to – and new canons for – both philosophy and political theory? Through these essays and questions, this volume introduces tensions, critiques, and concepts that provide a mirror for larger conversations happening within feminist political theory.

Autor

Katie Howard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her work focuses on feminist philosophy and political philosophy, especially the work of Hannah Arendt, with additional research interests in contemporary affect theory. Her work has appeared in the journals Raisons Politiques, Journal of World Philosophies, and Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Shannon Mariotti is Professor of Political Science at Trinity University, in San Antonio, Texas. Her scholarship focuses on democratic theory and practice, with a focus on 19th century American Transcendentalism and Romanticism as well as 20th century Critical Social Theory and Modernism. She is the author of Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010) as well as Adorno and Democracy: The American Years (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016). She is also co-editor of A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016). Her most recent book is Contemplative Democracy: Political Theory and Practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025). She is co-editor of Contemplative Praxis and Politics (forthcoming from Routledge, 2026). 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing AG / Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89501049
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783032105134
• ISBN-10: 3032105137
• Artikelnr.: 75542755